August Announcements

Almost on time, too! Well done to those hardy souls who risked the riots to get to us on Tuesday night, we're very glad you got home safely.

Future Moots

On September 13th, fingers crossed, we've been promised a talk from Vernon the Druid. Vernon's also a Unitarian minister and hopefully he'll be able to tell us how he puts the two together and why.

Chris will be taking over on October 11th with his views on 2012 and all that. Are we all doomed? Looks like we'll find out.

Coming Up

The Newe Bolton Moot is happening on the evening of Tuesday 16th August at the Man & Scythe. Just a social this month, I think.

If anybody fancies a superb night of gothing-it-up we'll be going to Ara on Friday 19th August. You're welcome to join us.

On Sunday 21st August Linda's organised a local history walk. We'll be meeting up at Chorley Railway Station at 12:30 and travelling to the Pikestones on Anglezarke moor where we can have a bit of a picnic followed by a trip to Tockholes Well where Hawky is organising a drum circle. After that it's tea at the Royal Oak.
Lifts will be organised back to Bolton for anyone on public transport.

Our annual Bramble Ramble will take place on Saturday 10th September at Radcliffe Moot Towers. We're having an evening do this time, so we'll be setting off to collect blackberries around 5pm and coming back to ours for drinkies and nibbles.

The following day, Sunday 11th September, has a Mysterious Lancashire conference at Hoghton Community Centre near Belmont. It goes from 10am until 5pm. Details available from Linda

July Additional

AAARGH! I FORGOT THE WHINBERRY WALK!

That's what happens when you've got too much stuff in your head. Thank you to Jonathan for reminding me.

Anyway ...

The Radcliffe Moot's annual Whinberry Walk will take place on Sunday 31st July. We'll meet up at 11:30am on the car park of the Shoulder Of Mutton pub. Here's the address:

The Shoulder of Mutton
Holcombe Village
Ramsbottom
Lancashire
BL8 4LZ

We'll then take a gentle stroll up Holcombe Hill to Peel Tower where we'll have a little picnic. After that we'll stroll gently back down the hill, filling our butty-boxes with whinberries (or whortleberries, or blaeberries depending where you come from) and finish with a nice toast to Lugh at the Shoulder.

Whatever happens after that is anyone's guess, but we don't have to be up early!

See you there.
Seán
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July Announcements.

Hooray! We're back!

Actually we haven't been anywhere, it's just that I've had my head filled with so much stuff the writing of the Moot blog kept falling out. Thanks go to Francis for reminding me about it.

Anyway. Thank you to Bridget for last night's talk/workshop on chakras which was very enlightening and relaxing. For the future, though, there's not a lot to tell.

We're a bit unplanned at the moment. The next moot on Tuesday 9th August will hopefully be a talk from Vernon the Druid and Unitarian minister, if we can get hold of him. If not, it's been a while since either Sara or I took centre-stage so one of us will take over.

There are only a few announcements too.

Friends will be most welcome to join us at ARA to celebrate Sara's birthday on Friday 22nd.

We'll be away to Silverdale for the Woodspirit camp during the first weekend in August. Amongst hiding amongst the other treats will be a Dionysos talk by me, a Greek shields workshop by Sara, a talk on Ishtar and Purim by Bridget and, I think, some besom-making with Chris HailTheBadger.

That's about it for now.

See y'all soon.
Seán
xx